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...most remarkable biographies since, well, the 18th century, when James Boswell profiled Samuel Johnson. Boswell had it easy: Johnson was the leading literary figure of the age. But Seth's Two Lives focuses on people unknown to all but friends and family: Seth's great-uncle Shanti and great-aunt Henny, with whom the author lived in north London for several years as a student. Though these two hardly changed the course of history, the passion and eloquence Seth brings to their story makes Two Lives fascinating - and maybe even worth its reported $2.5 million advance. Born in a northern...
...that begins, "Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son?" Surviving son Andy, 21, supports his mother in principle but recently sent her a long e-mail imploring her "to come home because you need to support us at home," he says. Casey's aunt Cherie Quartarolo e-mailed a California radio station last week to rebuke Cindy, writing, "She appears to be promoting her own personal agenda at the expense of her son's good name...
...father was working out of Entergy's Little Rock office, contemplating a massive repowering of isolated neighborhoods. Sloan's mother—a French professor at Tulane University in New Orleans—and brother considered moving in with an aunt in Washington, D.C. Sloan plans to go back to Cambridge, joining the Harvard cross-country team on Friday...
...true poetic vision. A passionate student of the piano, Adams reluctantly concluded in his late 20s that his hands were too small for a concert career. After an encounter with the photographer Paul Strand, he decided to devote himself to his second love, the camera. His mother and aunt were dismayed. The camera, they informed him, could not express the soul. "Perhaps the camera cannot," he retorted, "but the photographer...
Among the Kennedy family members and celebrities disgorged at the church by a fleet of limousines and buses were the bride's uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, her aunt Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, TV Actress Susan Saint James, I CBS's 60 Minutes Correspondent Diane Sawyer, NBC Newscaster Tom Brokaw, ABC Interviewer Barbara Walters, Columnist Art Buchwald and Singer Andy Williams. Flattopped Actress Grace Jones and Pop Artist Andy Warhol showed up late...